FromOld Irishimmi. Cognate withScottish Gaelicuime.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmʲə/^[1][2]

uime (emphaticuimesean)

1. third-personsingularmasculine ofum

uime

1. why(relative), for which reason

• 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck,Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page141:

  əsimə šin, ə dūŕc mē leš n̥ xȧnc šin.

  [Isuime sin a dúirt mé leis an chaint sin.]

  That’swhy I said that to him

  (literally, “…I said that speech…”)

FromOld Irishimmi. Cognates includeIrishuime.

• (Lewis, Uist)IPA^(key): /ˈimə/^[3],[ˈɪmə]^[4]
• (Barra)IPA^(key): [ˈimʌ]

uime

1. third-personsingularmasculine ofmu: abouthim

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